Campbell's Heather Lee Falls Short In National Bid

Campbell's Heather Lee
Falls Short In National Bid
N.C. State Sweeps Southeast Region Cross
Country Championships

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Country Championships

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- North Carolina State swept the NCAA Southeast
Region Cross Country Championship Saturday at Furman, winning the
women's race by four points over second place North Carolina, and
taking the men's race by 42 points over William & Mary.
The N.C. State women placed three runners in the top 10 and
all five scorers in the top 20 to score 45 points. Kristin Price
led the Wolfpack with a second-place finish in 20:53, while North
Carolina's Shalane Flanagan won her second consecutive Southeast
Region Championship and tied the course record at 20:26.
Campbell University junior Heather Lee missed a national
qualifying berth by 15 seconds. Lee finished 14th
overall in the 6,000-meter women's race at 21:58. Molly
DeFrancesco of James Madison earned the last of four automatic
berths to the nationals by placing ninth with a time of 21:43.
Lee, a native of Calgary, Alberta, earned Atlantic Sun Conference
Women's Cross Country Runner of the Year honors by winning the
league title on Oct. 27 at Atlanta, Ga. Her 17:00 minute time in
that race was the fastest ever in league history on a 5,000-meter
course.
Campbell did not field a full team in Saturday's Regional.
Renee Acker placed 110th at 24:31, while senior Natalie
Lewis ran a 26:05 time to finish 166th in the 180-runner
field.
On the men's side, N.C. State place all five scorers in the
top 11 and took individual spots three, four, and five in scoring
30 points. William and Mary's Sean Graham was the individual
champion, posting a time of 30:15 over the 10K course.Only
four points separated the third-place Demon Deacons of Wake Forest
from the fourth place Blue Devils of Duke (82-86), so the NCAA
Committee will have to decide on Monday whether to award either,
one, or both of these teams at-large bids. In the women's race,
Virginia finished third at 86, with James Madison coming in fourth
at 121.
Virginia's Jennifer Owens and Sarah Folse, Liberty's Heather
Sagan, and JMU's Molly DeFrancesco earned automatic invitations to
the November 19 championship.
The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championship is
will take place on the Furman Golf Course on the 19th. Admission is
$3 for adults and $2 for children. The men's 10K race will start at
11 a.m. with the women's 6K slated for 12:15 p.m.